SMITH, John Hyatt, a Representative from New York;
born in Saratoga, N.Y., April 10, 1824;
taught by his father;
employed for a time as a clerk in Detroit, Mich., and later as a bank clerk in Albany, N.Y., and while in the latter position studied theology;
after ordination his first pastorate was in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1848;
officiated in Cleveland, Ohio, for three years, in Buffalo, N.Y., 1855-1860, and in Philadelphia, Pa., 1860-1866;
during the Civil War served in Virginia with the United States Christian Commission in 1862;
chaplain of the Forty-seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York, in 1869;
continued his ministerial duties in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1866-1880;
elected as an Independent candidate to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883);
appointed by President Arthur a commissioner to inspect the Pacific Railroad, after which he resumed a pastorate in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he died December 7, 1886;
interment in Greenwood Cemetery.